The Duggar Daughters Scary Story Hour: Your Aborted Fetus Will Haunt You Forever

Did I wake up this morning thinking that I would be lucky enough to cover the Duggar Daughters two days in a row? No. I’m Jenni Maier, not Jared Leto’s hair. But luck be a lady today because our fave gal pals are back with more misguided advice. And today gets extra touchy because they’re getting all up in all of our uteri and talking about abortion. And why you should, never ever have one.

Even though this is happening out of God’s designed order, He loves you both and will forgive you,” they insist. “Abortion might seem like a quick fix to a big problem, but we personally know several women who have done this, and they have said they regret ending the life of their baby; it haunts them every day. You cannot get un-pregnant. If you are pregnant, take responsibility and take care of yourself and your baby and God will take care of you.”

Let’s ignore the fact that God’s forgiveness doesn’t go very far when it comes to being able to afford the extraordinary cost of raising a child and jump right into their spiel about responsibility. Because this particular pro-life argument never quite makes sense to me. There’s nothing irresponsible about looking at your lifestyle and realizing that it’s not right to raise a child. Yes, there are probably many women who do regret their abortions. But there are probably many more who don’t. There are probably many women who look back at that difficult choice and know they made the right decision for them at that time. And yes, I do say difficult choice because it is an incredibly difficult choice. There’s nothing easy or simple about getting an abortion. No one relishes the thought of it. No one plays birth control roulette in hopes they’ll get pregnant and get the chance to pay for an abortion.

The Duggars can yammer on and on about how giving birth is about taking responsibility for your choices. But news flash, giving birth is just the first step in raising a child. After that comes EVERYTHING ELSE. And as far as I know you can’t pay for diapers by telling the cashier that you took responsibility. Nor can you send your pediatrician bills to God.

It’s time that people as fortunate as the Duggars took responsibility for what they say and actually made “choosing life” a real option. Start with simple things like promoting paid maternity leave, then move onto more advanced things like supporting programs that help underprivileged children eat nutritious meals. Then maybe do something crazy and open a chain of affordable clinics that provides prenatal care to pregnant women who can’t afford it. And while you’re at it, toss a daycare into that clinic so the woman doesn’t have to pay for childcare for her existing children to get that prenatal care. Because here’s a fun fact, 60% of women seeking an abortion already have a child at home.

Or maybe, I’m getting ahead of myself here. Maybe the first step is simply sitting down with women who are getting abortions and ask them why. And spoiler alert, it’s not because they’re lazy or irresponsible or unaware of what getting an abortion means. There’s always a valid reason and it would help pro-birthers like the Duggars to decrease the number of women getting abortions if they actually understood the reasons why women get them.

I love the way that liberals always insist that people who are pro-life must be doing something personal to help women instead of talking about their views, but liberals are always allowed to speak about abortion without giving one bit of a crap about women or babies!! The Duggars do work at Pregnancy Centers that help with prenatal care, and they are continually doing charity work! Two of them are training to be midwives, 2 are EMTS, and one is a fireman! They are continually helping people, and they even did a fundraiser to raise thousands of dollars for the Prenatal hospital that helped their baby!! Unlike your definition of compassion where you just blog about it, they are actually doing it and living it! They know about those women who have had abortions because they have worked at those pregnancy centers that offer post-abortion recovery groups!! They go on Mission trips every year to help impoverished countries, and have personally sponsored poor families…..so you have no idea what you are talking about! They actually have done more to help families, mothers, and babies then you have ever blogged about helping!!

Person

Are you one of the Duggars?
Or just their propaganda machine?
It seems to be catching.

acb4values

I have never personally met them, but I agree with a lot of their ways of raising a family. I personally only have 4 kids, and that is all I believe God gave me but support their right to have that many children when they can take care of them without assistance!! I much rather their way of raising a family than anyone in Hollywood!!!

I don’t know who is more irresponsible, these Duggar people or TLC for distributing this idiotic show. Great – we need more dumb a$$ people thinking its ok to have 10+ kids — people like this don’t believe in saving the planet anyway, so let’s just fill it with people. GREAT idea.

seriouslylistentoyourself

Let me see if I understand the logic of this article. I decide to have sex. I get pregnant. I am unable to raise the child. I end another’s life to cover up my lack of responsibility=I’m being responsible. If only there were a way to let the baby live yet not have to take care of it, like if there were someone else who couldn’t get pregnant and wanted a baby… nevermind, too much trouble… Anyone who says I’m being irresponsible is a hypocrite if they don’t foot the bill for my prenatal care/child’s healthcare/education… Does that pretty much cover it?